Freudians would consider French culture to be "oral" due to its emphasis on food and wine, while Swiss culture appears "anal" because of its obsession with time, cleanliness, money and order. So, what do Freudians make of Japan, whose culture has elevated both its oral and anal aspects to the level of Zen art?
I asked a Zen disciple for his views on Freud, and he simply replied "ma." When I pushed for elaboration, he then uttered "mu." I was obviously going nowhere -- ultimately, just where Zen would have it that I needed to go -- but I was desperate to progress somewhere which, undoubtedly, a Zen master would say is exactly the wrong way to go.
For the ultimate Zen ignoramus perhaps the only place to go and dwell on koans or Freudian theory of an anal nature is the Realm of Entering Nirvana in Kagawa Prefecture -- home of the final stop on the 88-temple circuit of Shikoku. There, at "Charm Station: World's Toilet Museum" in Utazu City, you can not only view a 24-carat, solid-gold can worth 60 million yen, but also see a replica of a 16th-century Japanese lavatory designed by one of this nation's greatest Zen masters.